{"id":208,"date":"2010-09-09T14:54:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T19:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2010-09-09T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T19:54:35","slug":"akai-has-some-smart-dudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Akai has some smart dudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll never abandon my turntables, but at the same time, I continue my snails pace work of working with Ableton Live.<br \/>\nI picked up an APC40 from Akai a few weeks back and finally got it setup.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve only played with it for a bit so I&#8217;m not about to give it a full review yet.  So far, it&#8217;s really cool but it was when I was setting it up that I first noticed the little bits of brilliance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/?attachment_id=210\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/power1-300x97.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"power1\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/power1-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/power1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is where I wanted to plug it in.  The typical power strip.  One opening left and a big fat rectangular box (like the one on the left end) is not going to fit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/?attachment_id=211\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/power2-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"power2\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/power2-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/power2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBut here is the plug &#8211; yes, it&#8217;s boxy, but it&#8217;s not a fat rectangle, but a slim design with the bulk hanging off the side so that it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/?attachment_id=209\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/power3-300x109.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"power3\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/power3-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/power3.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfits perfectly into the power strip.  So simple, so obvious &#8211; but I don&#8217;t own anything else with a plug like this.  This plug says &#8220;Relax Leroy &#8211; everything will be fine.  Now let&#8217;s make some music.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll never abandon my turntables, but at the same time, I continue my snails pace work of working with Ableton Live. I picked up an APC40 from Akai a few weeks back and finally got it setup. I&#8217;ve only played with it for a bit so I&#8217;m not about to give it a full review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leroyskibone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}